How To Find Real Joy Without Pretending Life Isn’t Painful with Swami Nityananda

What does it mean to live with greater awareness, freedom, and joy?In this episode of Mind, Money & Medicine, Favour speaks with Swami Nityananda, spiritual teacher of the Awake Yoga Meditation community and author of Awake: The Yoga of Pure Awareness.Swami Nityananda shares her perspective on meditation, nondual awareness, spiritual freedom, and the role of love and kindness in everyday life. Drawing from the yogic tradition, she explores how we can relate differently to fear, suffering, limitations, and the challenges of everyday experience.The conversation also looks at the importance of presence, self-awareness, community, and service, including how meditation can help us examine our experiences and our relationship with ourselves and others.Swami Nityananda also discusses her academic background as Juniper Ellis, Professor Emerita of English at Loyola University, and how her experiences in education, literature, and spiritual teaching have shaped her work.Connect with Swami Nityananda🌐 Website: Awake Yoga Meditation⁠
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